![]() ![]() as the disenfranchised demanded to be counted and considered in the great struggle over slavery, emancipation, democracy, and nationhood. The attempt to repress a majority of its own population backfired on the C.S.A. Women and slaves became critical political actors as they contested government enlistment and tax and welfare policies and struggled for their freedom. Although Southern statesmen and generals had built the most powerful slave regime in the Western world, they had excluded the majority of their own people-white women and slaves-and thereby sowed the seeds of their demise. When the grandiosity of Southerners' national ambitions met the harsh realities of wartime crises, unintended consequences ensued. In this book, Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience. Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South ![]()
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